| A. SCOTT CATEY, Ph.D., J.D. Biographical Note I earned my Ph.D (Department of Anthropology) and J.D. (Levin College of Law) at the University of Florida. My research focuses on public health and public law, including policy, regulatory, administrative, and infrastructural dimensions. For my dissertation, I examined these issues with an eye on processes of racialization in the design and delivery of health care services in Britain. I conducted my dissertation fieldwork in 2008-2009, mainly in Cardiff, Wales, and London, England, where I worked with, among others, legislators and policy-makers in the National Assembly for Wales and in Parliament, as well as members of various ethnic and minority communities, including refugees and asylums seekers. Based on this work, I innovated an analytical and theoretical approach to the anthropological study of law, which I call legisprudence. Using this framework, I examine the intersections of race, regulation, state action, and health outcomes and experiences. My current research is collaborative work with colleagues in Mexico, examining youth identity and changes in the material and symbolic economies of a village in southern Mexico. In a second, also collaborative, project, I am looking at mining, heritage and health among western Native American groups with an emphasis on identity and community. In both of these projects, I elaborate legisprudence and its value to practical and applied work, as well as its potential as a contributor to theory building more broadly. A third project focuses on the constitutionalization of international labor law, in the context of ongoing state and capital restructurings and the new conversations initiated by various social mobilizations, including participants in the "Arab Spring," Russian protests against single party political domination, and the global Occupy movements. Date of Birth: May 1968 Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado Education 2011 Ph.D. Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida J.D., cum laude, Levin College of Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 2000 M.A. Anthropology, with an emphasis in Forensic Anthropology, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 1994 B.A. Anthropology, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana |
Catey in Montreal, November 2011.